About Segala
Segala is a high-tech testing and technology company founded in 2003. We are an expert in Web accessibility and Mobile Web standards compliance certification.
Organisations around the world, demonstrate their commitment and conformance to accessibility standards by placing the Segala Trustmark on their Web site.
Segala launched the world’s first partner network for standards certification, enabling agencies and freelance developers to certify Web sites with the Segala Trustmark.
Based on the Semantic Web, Segala is an expert in enabling trust on the Web using Content Labels; a method soon to become a ratified W3C standard and proposed replacement for PICS, the current method adopted by Internet Explorer since the mid 90’s for content filtering.
Our mission
Segala strives to be a VeriSign equivalent in the field of selling Certificates, enabling trust on the Web for compliance with standards, best practices and codes of conduct. Segala is developing software to help Web site owners label sites accordingly for compliance with standards, best practices and codes of conduct.
Key facts (15)
- Founded in 2003. HQ in Dublin, Ireland
- Independent and Privately Owned
- Over 50% of work has come from referral and repeat clients
- Generated revenues of €2.2m in year 1, profitable within months
- First Certificate Authority worldwide to provide a Trustmark system using Content Labels
- First Certificate Authority to provide Web accessibility certification to the global market
- First Web accessibility specialist to resell online certificates through a partner network
- Founding Sponsor of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative (MWI)
- Co-editor of the W3C MWI ‘mobileOK‘ trustmarks with Google and ICRA
- Active contributor to the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
- Active contributor to the W3C WAI Evaluations and Repair Tools (ERT) Working Group
- Instrumental in the formation of the W3C Content Label Incubator Group (WCL-XG), a worldwide initiative to develop content labelling standards for the Web
- Author of the Content Label final report
- First testing and standards compliance specialist worldwide to become an Associate Member of the GSM Association
- One of the first to test the majority of mobile data products on the market
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